GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES v. SEC'Y OF STATE

No. 18-10151.

997 F.3d 1363 (2021)

GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES, Alabama State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Giovana Ambrosio, Elizabeth Ware, Shameka Harris, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE STATE OF ALABAMA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Date Filed: June 1, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deuel Ross , Leah Aden , Natasha Clarise Merle , Samuel Spital , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, Ryan M. Buschell , Robert D. Fram , Joshua A. Gonzalez , Sylvia Huang , Richard B. Oatis , Nathan E. Shafroth , Covington & Burling, LLP, San Francisco, Ca, John Michael Geise , Perkins Coie, LLP, Washington, Dc, Joanne B. Grossman , James MaCall Smith , Covington & Burling, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, Daniel Scott Harawa , Natasha Clarise Merle , NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc, Washington, Dc, Joseph Mitchell McGuire , McGuire & Associates, LLC, Montgomery, AL, Swati R. Prakash , Covington & Burling, LLP, New York, NY, Nana Wilberforce , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorm, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

James W. Davis , Steven Marshall , Corey L. Maze , Misty Shawn Fairbanks Messick, Winfield J. Sinclair , Alabama Attorney General's Office, Montgomery, AL, for Defendant-Appellee Secretary of State for the State of Alabama.

Julie Ebenstein , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Dale E. Ho , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Danielle Marie Lang , Paul March Smith , Campaign Legal Center, Washington, DC, Randall C. Marshall , American Civil Liberties Union, Montgomery, AL, Ezra D. Rosenberg , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Voting Rights Project Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, Matthew J. Higgins, Hogan Lovells US, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae American Civil Liberties UNION.

Julie Ebenstein , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Dale E. Ho , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Danielle Marie Lang , Paul March Smith , Campaign Legal Center, Washington, DC, Randall C. Marshall , American Civil Liberties Union, Montgomery, AL, Matthew J. Higgins , Hogan Lovells US, LLP, Washington, DC, Montgomery, AL for Amicus Curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, Campaign Legal Center.

Starr Turner Drum , John C. Neiman, Jr. , Maynard Cooper Si Gale, PC, Birmingham, AL, Michael W. Robinson , Alabama Department of Public Safety, Montgomery, AL, for Amicus Curiae SERVICE.

Jonathan Edward Paikin , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Joshua A. Douglas, Ellen D. Katz, Daniel P. Tokaji, Franita Tolson.

Samuel J. Brooke , Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, for Amicus Curiae Southern Poverty Law Center, League of Women Voters of Alabama, Adelante Alabama Worker Center, Alabama Arise, Central Alabama Fair Housing Center, Low Income Housing Coalition of Alabama, Montgomery Pride United.

Samuel J. Brooke , Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, James Uriah Blacksher , James U. Blacksher, Attorney, Birmingham, AL, for Amicus Curiae, Alabama Legislative Black Caucus.

Thomas Molnar Fisher , Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Amicus Curiae STATE OF INDIANA.

John J. Park, Jr. , Strickland Brockington Lewis, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae American Civil Rights Union.

Paul Joseph Orfanedes , Judicial Watch, Inc, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Judicial Watch, Inc., State of Michigan.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, WILSON, MARTIN, JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, JILL PRYOR, NEWSOM, BRANCH, GRANT, LUCK, and LAGOA, Circuit Judges.


BY THE COURT:

A petition for rehearing having been filed and a member of this Court in active service having requested a poll on whether this appeal should be reheard by the Court sitting en banc, and a majority of the judges in active service on this Court having voted against granting rehearing en banc, it is ORDERED that this appeal will not be reheard en banc.

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